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Foreign animals surviving in other climates

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The monkeys made sense; many species of apes and monkeys are adaptable to many climates and are similar to humans in terms of anatomy. This reminded me of those hippos at Pablo Escobar’s compound that have since proliferated and then I just kept thinking about other potential species. The giraffes did not.

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Stupid TLC Show Called "My Monkey Baby"

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Thanks to Chimpanzee Information for pointing this travesty out. It's a TLC show about humans that adopt monkeys and treat them as their children. Monkey business is big business in the United States, where some people pay up to $5,000 to adopt a monkey of their own, often a capuchin monkey, which can grow up to 22 inches and 9 pounds.

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Birding Longcanggou, Sichuan

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If you can recommend a reliable weather god, please pass the information on to me so I can make arrangements with him/her before my next visit here. Apparently, Longcanggou is a great place to see a variety of parrotbill species. I can only partly confirm this, with my sightings restricted to two species.

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All my patches

10,000 Birds

With about 110 recorded species, the Kozara becomes truly magical place when the Danube swells and reclaims what is rightfully his. On the other side of the river, underneath the very buttresses of the Belgrade Fortress, with its 170 recorded bird species lies the Veliko Ratno Island (44°49’53.20″N, 20°26’4.98″E).

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Great Tit Telomeres, Baby Talk, Brainy Birds

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The Telomere does not contain useful genetic information, but rater, acts as a buffer. Had cells or organelles evolved, way back when, to handle “intelligence” rather than simple information signaling, they may have turned out differently, but that didn’t happen. Bird Brains Packed With Neurons. Here’s the problem.

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The New Neotropical Companion: A Book Review by a Lover of the Neotropics

10,000 Birds

In a time of little published information about the rainforests of Central and South America aside from scientific journal articles and the works of 19th-century naturalists, the “little green book,” as it was called, became a must-read amongst nature-oriented travelers and researchers.

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Finding an Asian Openbill in Singapore-second ever record!

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We had found thirty four bird species so far in Singapore and had to admit defeat due to lack of sleep and returned to the hotel. We had been busying bird watching all over Singapore and had reached 112 bird species and had decided it was time to visit Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve. I will now skip forward to Thursday, 14th March.

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